Protective is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROTECTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something that offers protection
• a thing that protects someone or something
• a condom.
ADJECTIVE:
• serving to protect
• intended to protect someone or something
• having or showing a strong wish to protect someone or something
• relating to the protection of domestic industries from foreign competition
• Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.
• intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind
• showing care
• (usually followed by `of\') solicitously caring or mindful
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover or shield from exposure, injury, damage, or destruction; guard; defend 1c

Words related to PROTECTIVE

protectively22 protectiveness21 protectives18

Words that contain PROTECTIVE

protectives18 protectively22 cryoprotective26 overprotective24 protectiveness21 radioprotective23 neuroprotective22 protectivenesse22 overprotectiven25 protectivenesses23 overprotectiveness28 overprotectivenesses30

How to use PROTECTIVE in a sentence

• The discovery of their protective function is to be credited to Metchnikoff, a Russian physician now teaching in Paris.
• Lately, however, had come a different sense, a strange one, with something personal and warm and protective in it.
• Twenty years ago a Pennsylvanian who questioned the policy of the protective system would have been looked upon as a sort of curiosity.
• No matter how good the government may be or how protective, all forms of subjection involve a certain loss of manhood.
• Spinrobin pressed closer, seeking the protective warmth of his body, and realizing from the gesture that something new was about to happen.
• The second weak point in the doctrine lies in the extreme vagueness of the terms, protective and self-regarding.
• Adams they liked, because he believed in internal improvements at government expense and a protective tariff.
• A small decline then ensuing gave place to a soaring movement at New Orleans, in response to the great stimulus which the protective tariff of 1828 gave to sugar production.
• But it was necessary to get into touching distance before they could even make out the outlines of the nightmare things, so well did their protective coloring conceal them.
• But whether that protective device would continue to hold now, none of the three were certain.
• I wonder what the Protective party will be like when it eventually comes into office.
• He enveloped them all in a warm, protective affection.
• It is the nature and part of the protective instinct of everyone to find some excuse for his acts.
• He would consider himself, not as conservative, not as protective to present institutions, but as belonging to the party of Progress.
• Great Britain has had protective legislation for women workers since 1844.
• Many similar decisions had been handed down in other States, until it had become almost a principle of American law that protective legislation for working women was invalid.
• He wanted to avoid this situation and a protective, invisible wall was around him.
• He was conscious, before anything else, of a triumphant protective and spoiling tenderness for his women.
• In 1846 he attributed high wages in America to the operation of the protective system.
• This operated in harmony with the next branch of the new system, which was a high protective tariff.
• The protective system was unjust and unequal in operation.
• In those days he could not surround himself with an artificial protective environment.
• The question of a low protective or purely revenue tariff on imports has not received any serious investigation.
• The protective instinct stirred once more within him and pushed back his anger.
• Thus I should account in many cases for the greater beauty of the male over the female, without the need of the protective principle.
• The illustrations in this chapter are all taken from the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago in connection with its efforts to save girls from overwhelming temptation.
• It was with the protective mien of one who sought to shield him from an adverse destiny that she declined his suit.

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